What steps will reproduce the problem?
>>> import argparse
>>> parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(fromfile_prefix_chars='@')
>>> parser.parse_args([''])
What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/argparse-1.2.1-py2.6.egg/argparse.py", line 1703, in parse_args
args, argv = self.parse_known_args(args, namespace)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/argparse-1.2.1-py2.6.egg/argparse.py", line 1735, in parse_known_args
namespace, args = self._parse_known_args(args, namespace)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/argparse-1.2.1-py2.6.egg/argparse.py", line 1747, in _parse_known_args
arg_strings = self._read_args_from_files(arg_strings)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/argparse-1.2.1-py2.6.egg/argparse.py", line 1985, in _read_args_from_files
if arg_string[0] not in self.fromfile_prefix_chars:
IndexError: string index out of range
What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.2.1, CentOS 5 w/ Python 2.6.8 from EPEL repository.
Original issue reported on code.google.com by will...@shallum.net on 15 Jan 2014 at 5:16
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
will...@shallum.neton 15 Jan 2014 at 5:16